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One of the 21st century's greatest challenges is to develop diets  that are both sustainable for the planet and good for our bodies. An  IIASA-led study explored the major drivers of widespread shifts to  sustainable diets using a newly developed computational model of  population-wide behavioral dynamics.High  meat consumption—especially of red and processed meat—has been linked  to poor health outcomes, including diabetes, heart disease, and various  cancers. Livestock farming for meat production also has a massive environmental footprint. It contributes to  deforestation to make room for livestock, leads to land and water  degradation and biodiversity loss, and, considering the meat industry's  considerable methane emissions, creates as much greenhouse gas (GHG)  emissions as all the world's cars, trucks, and airplanes combined. It  therefore seems logical that several studies have demonstrated that diet  change, especially lowering red meat consumption, can significantly  contribute to the mitigation of climate change and environmental  degradation, while also being conducive to better public health. Previous studies on diet change scenarios involving lowered meat  consumption, which were mostly based on stylized diets or average  consumption values, showed promising results in terms of alleviating  environmental degradation. If the world's average diet, for example,  became flexitarian by 2050, in other words, people started to limit  their red meat consumption to one serving per week and white meat to half a portion per day, the  GHG emissions of the agriculture sector would be reduced by around 50%.  This seems like an easy change to make, but research shows that due to  the scale of behavioral change required, most of these scenarios will be  difficult to achieve. In their study published Nature Sustainability researchers from IIASA and the University of Koblenz-Landau explored  the major behavioral drivers of widespread shifts to sustainable diets.

Here’s a round up of some of the news released by the Asgardia Space News team from the last 24 hours! New Research Shows Cosmic Radiation Could Dumb Us Down Before We Get to Mars https://bit.ly/2ZKPsZv Are we getting ahead of ourselves and radiation might be to much in traveling to Mars? Astrophysics Legend Nikolai Kardashev, Civilization Ranking Scale Author, Died Age 87 https://bit.ly/2MIcv3h Nikolai Kardashev contributed greatly to the field of astrophysics and radio astronomy and will always be remembered. Astronauts Gear Up to Mine the Moon https://bit.ly/2Yzv54Z Astronauts on the ISS start to test devices that may be used in mining on the moon. What are they and how will they work? Don't forget to follow the Parliamentary and Asgardia Team blogs today! Parliamentary Blog https://bit.ly/2Yzrij4 Asgardia Team Blog https://bit.ly/2YH8Fhq What are your thoughts about the weekends’ articles? Comment below!

Бета Гончих Псов (лат. Beta Canum Venaticorum) — звезда в созвездии Гончих Псов. Находится на расстоянии около 27 световых лет от Солнца. Для звезды применялись также названия Хара (Чара, Шара) и, реже, Астерион — имена мифологических собак Аркада. Звезда представляет собой жёлтый карлик главной последовательности. Её масса и диаметр приблизительно равны 108 % и 111 % солнечных соответственно. Светимость превосходит солнечную в 1,2 раза, а наличие тяжёлых элементов в составе равно от 59 до 120 % солнечного эквивалента. β Гончих Псов принадлежит к обширной семье звёзд галактического диска, её возраст оценивается в 4,05 миллиарда лет. Астрономы предполагают наличие массивного компаньона в системе β Гончих Псов, имеющего орбитальный период в 2430 суток. Однако убедительных подтверждений его присутствия до сих пор найти не удалось.(https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бета_Гончих_Псов)

I'm somewhat new to this, but I plan on doing these sorts of things as best I can. Everyday I watch the news here in North America and sometimes the rest of the world. Rising waves of Hate and intolerance towards LGBTQs, democrats, and even gun violence. This is truly a problem we need to deal with if humanity is to begin its new life in space. That means we need to start human reform programs that promotes progressive ideals and show people, we the human race can't be divided by race, color, gender, religion, or even nationality. We need to come together, put aside our differences based on our beliefs and come together with a single common sense of reason and common goal. To seek out new life and explore new worlds. If we don't, then if we keep on fighting each other and one day humanity discovers an alien species that's my more advanced than us, we'll be viewed as a threat to other alien species. I'm more fearful each time I look at the news about violence and conflict and the violence, the hate, and intolerance has got to stop.

Did you know there are different types of meditation? Generally the focus in breathing kind of meditation trains the one-point-focus mental ability. Meditate for compassion and gratitude activate parts of brain (evidenced by brain fMRI) link to happiness. Meditate for open-state calms you down, no fear of any gain or any loss. We teach our kids to be smart, praise them for good grades, look up to wealthy business/technology people. Why have we never admire kind people? we teach kids to be polite to fit in social, to be nice so that friends and colleagues like you, to not litter because you will get fine. There are always purposes to be kind/good. Has it have to be this way? Have we strayed too far from pure kindness?